eli5 What is LDAP and what is active directory? What are the security risks involved with these ?
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LDAP is just a database /database protocol, like MySQL. Active directory manages everything you put in the domain containers, like users, passwords, keys, printers, file volumes, applications…. AD manages the data and runs on the domain servers and stores everything on LDAP. The security risks are high, but as long as you don’t expose your network to the world you should be more safe. The things that can go wrong is basically everything: if your security is not good enough, your domains email addresses, usernames, passwords, and basically everything on active directory can be cracked, then those user / password combinations can be used to leverage more data on other services. If you aren’t patched and don’t lock down your network, that is the worst that can happen
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